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Article 123 (ex Article 101 TEC) Overdraft facilities or any other type of credit facility with the European Central Bank or with the central banks of the Member States (hereinafter referred to as "national central banks") in favour of Union institutions, bodies, offices or agencies, central governments, regional, local or other public authorities, other bodies governed by public law, or public undertakings of Member States shall be prohibited, as shall the purchase directly from them by the European Central Bank or national central banks of debt instruments. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to publicly owned credit institutions which, in the context of the supply of reserves by central banks, shall be given the same treatment by national central banks and the European Central Bank as private credit institutions.
What the ECB cannot do is fund a public debt issue, and that makes some sense from certain ideological perspectives. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
What the ECB cannot do is fund a public debt issue, and that makes some sense from certain ideological perspectives.
Because by having passed through the bid-ask spread of a major investment bank, it is suddenly converted from a loan into a monetary instrument?
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
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